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You Can Build This House for $4,000
I've always been a fan of small houses. In small spaces, everything has a purpose, and everything is so easy to organize because you can't fit much in there to clutter it up. Here's the plans and...
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How to: Make a Hood Ornament
Quick: what was the make, model, and production year of the first car you owned? Mine was a 1984 Honda Civic, tan, with a tape deck that got used significantly, and get this, power door locks! Snazzy!I...
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7 Essential Tools for Cooking Meat Like a Pro
Here's the thing with cooking up a flavorful piece of protein: it's kinda expensive. Especially if you get the good stuff from a butcher you trust. Mess up a carrot? It's pretty easy to peel and cook...
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Restoring a 400-Year-Old Painting: The 5-Minute Video to Change Your Art...
Most art forms involve some level of collaboration, sometimes with people who work long after you've done your part. Or in this case, after you've been dead for 300 years. The five minute video...
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ManMade Guide: Step Up Your Summer Drinks with Grown-Up Flavored Ice Cubes
Around here, we've moved past the short glass - the whiskey in a tumbler, the shaken 3 oz. cocktails of spring -and opting for the long and tall. With sunshine comes all-day drinks: those mixed with...
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David's Shop Upgrade on a Budget: Step 1 – The Master Plan
I’ve been working in my shop several days a week for a few years now, and it shows. When it’s polished up, it’s useable, but the whole thing seems to unravel into chaos within minutes of starting a...
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How to Bend Wood and Plywood at Home: Laminations Explained
I've always been fascinated with curved wood furniture. It doesn't feel right to take straight stock and curve it like that, but at the same time the results are fantastic. It's definitely an art and...
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Crispy, Crunchy, Juicy, Flavorful: How to Make the Ultimate Southern Fried...
There are a few things nearly everyone can agree on. The Beatles wrote some really great songs, mountains are awesome, and every one looks silly when they use an iPad as a camera. And, I submit to you,...
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ManMade Essential Toolbox: The Best Combination Square for Woodworking...and...
Each week in 2015, ManMade is sharing our picks for the essential tools we think every creative guy and DIYer needs. We've selected useful, long-lasting tools to help you accomplish a variety of...
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How to: Modify an Inexpensive Tool Cart to Organize All Your Hand Tools
My buddy and colleague Timothy spied this great video tutorial for turning this affordable three-level tool cart into a full-on organization system for all of your tools. Mark Massingill starts with...
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13 Things You Didn't Know You Could Grill (That You Totally Should...)
Most men love some good summer-grilled meat, but that isn't the only thing you can grill... Grilled donuts are always a crowd-pleaser, just don't use glazed donuts since they tend to drip...
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How to: Properly Clean Canvas Shoes
I recently heard an episode of the NPR podcast, Selected Shorts, in which Sean Astin read Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Sound of Summer Running." The story tells of special place a pair of sneakers...
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8 Tips for Taking Amazing Summer Travel Photos with Your Smartphone
I've spent many vacations lugging high-end camera gear around to document my travels. But these days, my phone has replaced every piece of gear I used to carry; for their convenience and the decent...
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Make This: DIY Concrete Sphere Fountain
Concrete is the ideal material for outdoor life. It looks great, holds up to just about anything, and blends well with wood and greenery. Here's a weekend project to make a concrete fountain that will...
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Not Your Father's Pegboard
This is the tool wall in the workshop of Rhode Island furniture maker Hank Gilpin. It places every hand tool used in the shop - including saws, clamps, scrapers, drill bits, chisels, planes, and...
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ManMade Essential Toolbox: 7 Must-Have Books Every Woodworker Should Own
Each week in 2015, ManMade is sharing our picks for the essential tools we think every creative guy and DIYer needs. We've selected useful, long-lasting tools to help you accomplish a variety of...
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Take a Taxi Through Vintage New York City
If you're interested in the actual design, style, and swagger of a forgotten era, step into this time-capsule and see life as it really was in 1970's New York City. As someone who was once able to...
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Blow My Mindsday: July 22, 2015
Each Wednesday, I post some of my favorite can't-miss links, images, and otherwise mindblowing goodies from across the web.Perhaps you've seen this go by this week, but I'm pretty fascinated with this...
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How to Sell Your Handmade Stuff at a Craft Fair
If you’re like me your DIY obsession can get so out of hand you have to start selling your stuff to fund more stuff! One of the ways my wife and I do it is setting up a booth at local festivals, barn...
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Skill Builder: Getting Started with Google SketchUp for Woodworkers and Makers
SketchUp is free, robust, and really helps to bring your projects to life. I stumbled through the basics for way too long, so here are a few steps to get you modeling faster. The first time I...
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